This character appears in 20 books.
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
by Thomas C. Foster
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien: Tim is the narrator of this book. Though they share the same name, the author and the narrator are separate. Tim (the narrator) tells the story through first person view. He tells the truth even when he is lying.
Memorable Quotes by Tim O'Brien:
“It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.”
“In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth. You can't tease it out. You can't extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning. And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh."”
“At its core, perhaps, war is just another name for death, and yet any soldier will tell you, if he tells the truth, that proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life. Though it's odd, you're never more alive then when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what's best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost.”
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This book is based on The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.CliffsNotes on O'Brien's The Things They Carried
by Jill Colella
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Portable MFA in Creative Writing
by Editors of New York Writers Workshop
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